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              Belle Ancell Photography
          
            Monica Meneghetti
          
        
            ADDRESS
          
          
                                            City: Mansons Landing,
                                                          Province/Territory:   British Columbia
                        
        
            EMAIL
          
          
                      c/o TWUC
                    
        
            GENRE
          
          
            creative nonfiction/memoir, literary translation
          
        
            LANGUAGES
          
          
            English (author), Italian and French (translator)
          
        
            PUBLICATIONS
          
          Publications
          Title
              Scars (anthologized personal essay) in Here & Now: An Anthology of Queer Italian-Canadian Writers
          Publisher
              Longbridge Books
          Year
              2024
          Title
              The Fifth: A Love(s) Story by MP Boisvert, Trans. Monica Meneghetti
          Publisher
              Dagger Editions of Catilin Press
          Year
              2021
          Title
              What the Mouth Wants: A Memoir of Food, Love and Belonging (author)
          Publisher
              Dagger Editions
          Year
              2017
          Title
              The New Sacred (anthologized personal essay) in Love Me True: Writers Reflect on the Ins, Outs, Ups and Downs of Marriage
          Publisher
              Caitlin Press
          Year
              2018
          Title
              Mushrooms & Memory (anthologized memoir) in Absent Mothers
          Publisher
              Demeter Press
          Year
              2017
          Title
              The Orchard (anthologized memoir) in Absent Mothers
          Publisher
              Demeter Press
          Year
              2017
          Title
              Nutritional Torture (anthologized poetry) in Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food
          Publisher
              Anvil Press
          Year
              2017
          Title
              Queer and Italian-Canadian (personal essay)
          Publisher
              Globe & Mail
          Year
              2018
          Title
              The Call of the Ice: Climbing 8000-meter Peaks in Winter by Simone Moro, Trans. Monica Meneghetti
          Publisher
              Mountaineers Books
          Year
              2014
          
            AWARDS
          
          Awards
          Name
              ReLit Award (shortlisted)
          Publication
              The Fifth: A Love(s) Story by MP Boisvert, trans. Monica Meneghetti
          Year
              2022
          Name
              Bisexual Book Award (tied with Peggy Seeger)
          Publication
              What the Mouth Wants: A Memoir of Food, Love and Belonging
          Year
              2018
          Name
              Lambda Literary Award (finalist)
          Publication
              What the Mouth Wants: A Memoir of Food, Love and Belonging
          Year
              2018
          
            PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
          
                            
            EQUITY INITIATIVE
          
          
          As part of the Union’s Equity Implementation Plan, we are committed to increasing awareness of authors who are Black, Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQI2S, or living with a disability. This author identifies as:
            
  
    
              
      
          
        Members who identify as:
          LGBTQI2S
              
            Programs & Interests
          
           
                Interested in participating Union’s Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools program:
              
              All members are eligible for the Union’s Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools program. Are you interested in participating in this pro
              Yes
          
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              Yes
           
    

